I believe that integral is a bit too much stuck in ther head. I’ve been a part of the integral theory crowd for almost 10 years I think. And I think if we ever want to gain traction we need to come from the next stage after integral which is the unity stage. After all, the only reason any stage of development is t have it be a stepping stone for the next stage… I believe that the first group of people that are comming into this stage collectively (that in all my 32 years of searching north america) is the community surrounding the john de ruiter ‘ethos’. I was wondering if anyone has had experienced or maby take a look at his website and media provided and let me know what you think. https://johnderuiter.com
I have talked with Terry Patten and I know he has sat and talked with john de ruiter. And I would really love to see Ken wilber sit down and have a talk with john de ruiter. I think that would be amazingly interested. Someone with a connection to ken should mention it to him, someone like Corey DeVos. Lol. Let me know.
@ksv@HawaiianRyan I just enjoyed your video about your upcoming novel Karen. Its an exciting project and typical of the types of media that will help humanity to its next stage. Best of luck.
Before I discovered IT last year I wrote a novel with the aim of promoting Interfaith which I am involved with and always felt that Interfaith was a stepping stone to something better just beyond. Thats a stereptypical concept isn’t it? Something better just around the bend and were never content just to stay where we are. LOL.
I digress.
Unfortunately it hasn’t been picked up by a publisher and I am loath to Vanity self publish, so I’ve posted the first two chapters, actually first two parts out of five parts on Wattpad for free download. I welcome any beta readers to take a look and happy to PM the whole book to anyone interested. Here is a synopsis and below is a link. Its free to join.
TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL by P.J.Warren
What if Jesus returned next week?
Or what if Muhammad wasn’t the last Prophet? Hindu’s expect a divine avatar every 1000 years……times up.
This story stretches across five continents. An adventure on a grand scale and themes on an even grander scale.
Anay Menelik has questionable parentage, unconventional upbringing and unheard of leadership style. But brings earthshattering change to humankind. Anay and a team of seven ordinary individuals take on incredible odds on an unimaginable journey.
How are issues like gender, environment and war solved by a media savvy internet enterpreneur whilst staying ahead of Mirtus Menelik and the Ethiopian Secret Services? What has Mirtus Menelik got to hide?
Challenge your beliefs, question your attitudes and fall in love with humanity all over again."
I think if Marianne Williamson came right out and said she was Integral, that would prick a lot of ears in America with some world attention. Perhaps she is more concerned it could backfire on her campaign if the electorate is too conservative.
I like @LaWanna suggestion of joining in marches e.g. gay pride, environment, peace, political rallies.
Oh friend, I resonate with all of your writing. I was born in 97 in China.
Same happens to me when my husband asks what I’ve been doing, and I’ve tried with my greatest and least amount of effort to elaborate what Integral Theory and Ego Development is. Interest is shown, support is given, which I deeply and sincerely appreciate, and so far that’s it. It hasn’t passed this stage and I’m okay with that. He’s doing so well where he is and he teaches me so much I don’t possess.
I have a TikTok account posting about life and death knowledge using memes, put it another way, sharing my experiences being an forensic examiner combined with memes. It gained over 1 million followers in under a month, with the nature of TikTok, meaning most of these 1 million+ boys and girls are Gen YZ. I’ve been contemplating how posting about integral theory and ego development together with memes would work out, as it has never been done before towards any Chinese audience, let alone towards Gen YZ. We shall see how that unfolds soon.
After all, I’m not so worried about our generation to be honest, not in a sense of lack of compassion nor caring, and it doesn’t mean we can just relax and arrest our own growth. Of course we shall continue our path, and continue learning how to pass this on to those who are ready, perhaps holding up mirrors for people around us, and of course to ourselves.
At last, hoping that we will always be reminded of the illusion of knowing, as we strive to gain ever greater insight into our own existence while trying to pass it on leaving our own greatness in place. Let us not forget the foolishness in trying to make everyone else like us, and even though, yes, those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, shall we not forget that our ego takes this mission very seriously, but we can laugh lightheartedly at ourselves and be joyous knowing that not knowing is the highest form of knowing.
Conservative and centrist viewpoints dominate the corproate media, corporate-funded universities, and corporatist politics. The majority of Americans hold positions that are often to the left, often far to the left, of both major parties and everything heard on the ‘mainstream’ media.
There hasn’t been a powerful and influential left-wing in the US since they were systematically destroyed by the FBI’s COINTELPRO about a half century ago. But if you listen to much of the suppressed and silenced ‘radical’ left, you’ll see plenty of evidence of emergent integral thinking, such as intersectionalism in feminism that was first strongly advocated by the Black Panthers before they became the target of the FBI.
Consider that not only the majority of Americans but the majority of Republicans support universal healthcare, higher taxes on the rich, paid maternity leave, etc. Yet these popular positions are considered too radical and extremist to even be supported by the DNC elite. Even on social issues like same sex marriage, most Americans voiced support for it years before did Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Most of the political elite in both main parties is often to the right of the American public. The disconnection is immense, but we don’t hear about it in the corporate media. So, the American majority is kept ignorant that they are the majority. This is done quite intentionally as social control. What would happen if the majority ever gained an awareness and identity of being a majority? This is the challenge of public knowledge or rather of its lack.
I started reading this thread and then realized there are 68 responses. WOW, that’s hot but too hot for me to read all of them. Regardless, I am going to put my two cents in. Until we can have an securely established, vibrant, and functional organization like the United Nations, I don’t think integral can take off. Sometimes it is mindboggling to me that is so short amount of time, say from the English Civil War, religious reformation, and Glorious Revolution chronicled by Thomas Hobbes at the war’s darkest moments to John Locke in the more optimistic time of the ascension of William and Mary, liberality was created as a political reality in the United States Constitution. Of course, Lincoln made the Declaration of Independence the sine qua non of the US experience in the Gettysburg Address. Each person has inalienable rights regardless of whatever temporal social contract establishing a government is in place.
The actions of George W. Bush and Donald Trump showed how weak the UN is (at least the UN delegates got to laugh at Trump when he made a speech there, a risk W. would never have taken). I give credit to Clinton for trying to use the UN as “peace keepers” during the Eastern European conflicts.
There can’t be a universally respected political organization until there are enough people around the world who have reached an integral level to see this as the next step in conscious evolution. I don’t believe there could have been a development of Green consciousness if an Orange constitution had not been put in place. My take away is Green really could contribute, using the power of integral leaders around the world to build a unique and new way of settling international crises. People born into a world like this would take it for granted that eligible nation states are not unique but are equally valued as all others.
There are a lot of memes, it’s even color coded nowadays… in shorts… I even have a presumption of who made that … as homesteading is a thing in the U.S, yet I went rampage and destoryed most contacts that had this potential anyhow! It’s quiet evident and everywhere I think we are globally aware, yet just passive as not everyone can work at high leverage stage turqouise projects of repairing satelites via code and getting rid of space debry etc. A deeper connection of human history would be cool at Teal/TQ where A.I and space science most likely will be the techno-economic breakthroughs that create memes in that area.
Or even genetic engineering. anyhow I am so out of this currently and done, humanity is weird.
